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Top 10 cool and innovative location based services-> 0

Submitted by chrismiller796 on Thursday March 24 2011, @08:21PM

chrismiller796 writes "Foursquare-like location based services (LBS) are hot. However, one big problem with current LBS is how to provide more value than simply enticing people to check in. There is still a lot of room for innovation."
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Turkish police seizes and wipes unpublished book-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24 2011, @06:06PM

An anonymous reader writes ""Istanbul police raided a printing house Wednesday evening in search of computer files containing an unpublished book by an arrested suspect in the Ergenekon coup-plot case and erased the digital draft." The book was alleging Turkish police and judicial system which are supposed to be secular has some unexplainable ties to an Islamic cult and behaves according to their agenda. Adding to the ultimate irony is, the publishing house (Ithaki) which has been raided also published Fahrenheit 451 for Turkish market."
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Comment: Self Serving Tripe (Score 1) 731

by Kruid on Thursday May 13 2010, @12:28PM (#32194808) Attached to: Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ

'nuff said

Suprnova.org Is About To Return 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:29PM

An anonymous reader writes "The legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org will be back in action soon. Sloncek, the former owner of suprnova.org decided to donate the domain to The Pirate Bay lads, who will relaunch the site in a few days, staying true to its original design. The return of a Legend."

Iraqi Web Series Crowdsources Distrib.

Submitted by

mike_dib

on Monday March 19 2007, @11:14AM

mike_dib writes "My company just released on online documentary series that was shot in Baghdad by Iraqi filmmakers. It's about the lives of everyday Iraqis — the great untold story of the war. It sits at the middle of technology, media, culture and politics. We've effectively crowd-sourced our distribution by putting the videos online and asking our viewers to help us spread them as far and wide as possible. As a TV company, we decided to rely on viewer and digital distribution rather than standard television broadcast. We're also using both Joost (in its next release) and Youtube which hasn't really been done knowingly to my knowledge. The first three webisodes came out today and new ones will follow every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We're trying to spread the word about the series so that the risk that our Iraqi producers took to make this series was worth it. Permalink: http://hometownbaghdad.com/2007/03/18/first-3-webi sodes-of-hometown-baghdad/ Cover story of salon now Salon's Coverage Blog for series Press release for series"

Holographic Data Storage

Submitted by

chuck77

on Monday March 19 2007, @11:12AM

chuck77 writes "Next generation holographic data storage, very cool. http://www.crn.com/storage/193401902 http://www.issidata.com/defaultspg.asp?storeID=WIN P"

Ian Murdoch of the Linux Foundation joins Sun

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2007, @11:01AM

An anonymous reader writes "Ian Murdoch, chair of the Linux Foundation, joins Sun as Chief Operating Platforms Officer http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/charting_the_ne xt_25_years http://ianmurdock.com/2007/03/19/joining-sun/"

Does Silicon Valley Need More H-1B Visas?

Submitted by

WSJdpatton

on Monday March 19 2007, @10:55AM

WSJdpatton writes "Can the U.S. visa program accommodate Silicon Valley's need for more skilled foreign workers without crowding out Americans? Oracle executive Robert Hoffman, who heads a tech-lobbying group that includes Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, and outsourcing critic and author Ron Hira, an engineer and a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, debate the issue."

OWASP Spring of Code 2007

Submitted by

Dinis Cruz

on Monday March 19 2007, @10:49AM

Dinis Cruz writes "Last Fall, the OWASP Foundation gave $35,000 in grants to worthy application security projects. This Spring, OWASP is using current membership fees and profits from past conferences to fund a bigger round of projects in the OWASP Spring of Code 2007.

All applications are due by March 30th. The OWASP Spring of Code is not connected to the Google Summer of Code."

Ubuntu gets migration assistant

Submitted by

Keir Thomas

on Monday March 19 2007, @10:47AM

Keir Thomas writes "Due in the next version of Ubuntu is Migration Assistant, a tool which will carry across all your docs, music, and even wallpaper to your fresh Ubuntu installation. Michael Larabel has taken a look and, despite a few bugs, likes what he sees. Windows users really are running out of excuses to make the switch now...!"